5.  The applicant was born in 1939 and lives in the town of Obninsk in the Kaluga Region.
6.  The applicant was engaged in emergency operations at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. As a consequence, he was entitled to disability settlement structured in monthly payments.
7.  The applicant sued the Obninsk Pension Fund (Управление Пенсионного Фонда РФ по г. Обнинску) for increase in the monthly payments and for arrears. On 14 October 1999 the Obninskiy District Court of the Kaluga Region increased the monthly payments to 15,749.44 Russian roubles (RUB) and awarded the arrears in the sum of RUB 295,381.72. On 13 April 2000 the Kaluga Regional Court upheld the judgment on appeal.
8.  In 2003 the applicant sued the Obninsk Town Social Security Service (“the social security service”) for arrears and increase in the monthly payments. On 28 April 2003 the Obninsk Town Court awarded the applicant a lump sum of RUB 208,427.40 in arrears and increased the monthly payments up to RUB 30,000. On 7 July 2003 the Kaluga Regional Court upheld the judgment on appeal and it became enforceable.
9.  On 11 December 2003 the applicant received the lump sum. It follows from a certificate from the social security service that on 9 November 2004 it owed the applicant RUB 114,004.48 in monthly payments.
10.  By letter of 29 April 2005, the Kaluga Regional prosecutor's office informed the applicant that the social security service's debt amounted to RUB 171,000.
11.  On 21 March 2006 the Obninsk Town Court quashed the judgment of 28 April 2003 at the applicant's request on account of a newly-discovered circumstance and remitted the case for a new examination.
12.  On 5 March 2007 the Obninsk Town Court recalculated the amount of the monthly payments due from 2002 and awarded the applicant RUB 3,715,846.50 in arrears for the period from 2002 to 2006 against the Ministry of Finance. It also increased the monthly payments to RUB 129,395.22 starting from 1 January 2007. On 3 May 2007 the Kaluga Regional Court upheld the judgment on appeal.
13.  On 19 February 2004 the Obninsk Town Court allowed the applicant's action against the Kaluga Regional Office of the Ministry of Finance (Министерство финансов РФ в лице Управления федерального казначейства по Калужской области) and awarded him a lump sum of RUB 6,838.57, monthly food allowance of RUB 676.52 and annual payments of RUB 1127.53. On 19 April 2004 the Kaluga Regional Court upheld the judgment on appeal.
14.  On 15 May 2004 the Obninsk Town Court sent the writ of execution to the applicant.
15.  In accordance with the Instruction on payment of social benefits issued by the Ministry of Finance on 28 January 2005, the applicant submitted the writ of execution to the social security service.
16.  On 7 November 2005 the social security service returned the writ of execution to the applicant and advised him to apply to the Kaluga Regional Office of the Ministry of Finance.
17.  The applicant submitted the writ of execution to the Kaluga Regional Office of the Ministry of Finance. By letter of 11 November 2005, the Kaluga Regional Office of the Ministry of Finance refused to pay and referred the applicant to the Ministry of Finance.
18.  On 17 January 2006 the applicant submitted the writ of execution to the Ministry of Finance.
19.  On 3 April 2006 the Oninsk Town Court quashed the judgment of 19 February 2004 at the applicant's request on account of a newly-discovered circumstance and remitted the case.
20.   On 15 May 2006 the Obninsk Town Court recalculated the amounts of monthly food allowance and annual payments due from 2000 and awarded the applicant RUB 63,378.93 in arrears for the period from 2000 to 2005. It also increased the monthly food allowance to RUB 1,732.35 and the annual payments to RUB 2,550 starting from 1 January 2006.
21.  The applicant brought a civil action against the Obninsk Town Administration and the Ministry of Finance, complaining about non-enforcement of the judgments of 28 April 2003 and 19 February 2004 and seeking penalty assessed at the marginal interest rate of the Russian Central Bank. On 11 March 2005 the Obninsk Town Court dismissed his action as having no basis in the domestic law. On 12 May 2005 the Kaluga Regional Court upheld the judgment on appeal.
22.  The applicant sued the Obninsk Town Administration and the Ministry of Finance, seeking payment of the amounts outstanding under the judgments of 28 April 2003 and 19 February 2004 and adjustment of those amounts to take account of increases in the minimum subsistence level. On 11 May 2005 the Obninsk Town Court dismissed the applicant's claims. It established that the Obninsk Town Administration owed RUB 128,255.04 to the applicant and the Ministry of Finance RUB 6,838.57. However, it held that the applicant should seek recovery of the debt through enforcement agencies, his claim for enforcement being not amenable to judicial review. The applicant did not appeal.